Any ideas? I'm googling now, and I'll be back with another update if I find an answer, for future readers. What happens is, a message is output 'Import Error: No module named site.' The program then closes immediately. Following is the syntax for close() method. It is a good practice to use the close() method to close a file. Python automatically closes a file when the reference object of a file is reassigned to another file. The sys.exit () also raises the SystemExit exception. It also contains the in-built function to exit the program and come out of the execution process. Strangely, VC++ will usually tell you if a breakpoint will never be reached, however it seems to believe that the breakpoints placed after Py_Initialize() will be reached. Calling close() more than once is allowed. In python, sys.exit () is considered good to be used in production code unlike quit () and exit () as sys module is always available. Anywhere else, the breakpoint is never reached. If you are calling the program using python programname, then you can use the construct: def main (): put your code here if name 'main': main () To restart you code, you can call main () from anywhere within your program. If placed on or before the call to Py_Initialize(), the code stops at the breakpoint. In BEFORE all the python code, it does actually stop. PyRun_SimpleString('from time import time,ctime 'Īny idea what's going on here? Oddly, when I place that code that's supposed to pause it Py_SetProgramName(argv) /* optional but recommended */

I'm on Windows 7 using Visual Studio 2012. I've called system('PAUSE') and added cin > variable so the program basically has absolutely no choice but to wait for input, yet these things are somehow ignored. It definitely executes the way it should with no problems, however I seem to be unable to stop it from closing immediately.

Now when I run a simple test program, the console window opens and closes immediately. I've embedded Python into C++ successfully (without even remotely as much pain and agony as with Lua).

Python program closes instantly